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  • Press release: Valerie Vaz MP Requests “Call-in” of Narrow Lane Transit Site Application

    • 23/07/2021
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
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    “I asked the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government to “call-in” the application for a Gypsy, Roma & Traveller Transit Site at Narrow Lane before Walsall Council’s Planning Committee approved it at their meeting on Thursday 15 July 2021. This application will seriously undermine the Government’s national policy commitments, as well as being in breach of the specific national planning guidance ‘Planning Policy for Travellers’ Sites’ (DCLG). The issue of traveller transit sites and unauthorised encampments is of national and regional interest and is the subject of current debate and proposed legislation in parliament and cannot be dismissed as of local interest only.  

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  • Press release: Valerie Vaz MP slams Government planning reforms as a developers’ charter, people’s nightmare

    • 21/06/2021
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
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    Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP also raised local planning issues during an Opposition Day Debate on local involvement in planning decisions

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  • Press release: Valerie Vaz MP questions Walsall Council’s spending priorities

    • 16/06/2021
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
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    Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP has written to Walsall Council to highlight the lack of investment in schools, safety, and the local community

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  • Valerie Vaz MP calls for investigation into Walsall Council decision

    • 26/05/2021
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
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    Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP held a parliamentary debate on the decision-making on Walsall’s GRT transit site

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  • Valerie Vaz MP raises concerns with NHS leadership following CQC Report on medical services at Walsall Healthcare Trust

    • 20/05/2021
    • Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
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    Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP responded to a CQC Report which called for significant improvements at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

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